K-Tel's Mind Bender kicks off with "Bad Blood" a groovy little song by Neil Sedaka with an anonymous assist from Elton John who ironically would depose Sedaka at the top spot of the charts after a fortnight with "Island Girl". John himself shows up on Mind Bender with the #6 hit "Rocket Man". Despite having six #1 songs among the 22 tracks, Mind Bender is weighted down in the K-Tel Scale by three songs that failed to breach the Top 30.
MIND BENDER [1976]
| K-tel Scale: |
29.18
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| Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| Bad Blood | Neil Sedaka | 1 | 25 | 1 | 1 | ||
| You Sexy Thing | Hot Chocolate | 3 | 6 | 2 | 22 | ||
| Rock And Roll All Nite | Kiss | 12 | 17 | 6 | |||
| Lady Marmalade | Labelle | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play) | The Spinners | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |
| Tangerine | Salsoul Orchestra | 18 | 36 | 6 | 11 | 40 | |
| Love Fire | Jigsaw | 30 | 20 | 34 | |||
| Low Rider | War | 7 | 1 | 5 | |||
| I'm Not In Love | 10cc | 2 | 10 | 3 | 2 | ||
| If You Wanna Get To Heaven | Ozark Mountain Dadredevils | 25 | 21 | ||||
| Paloma Blanca | George Baker Selection | 26 | 1 | 22 | 32 | ||
| Love Rollercoaster | Ohio Players | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Theme from S.W.A.T. | Rhythm Heritage | 1 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | |
| Rocket Man | Elton John | 6 | 39 | 11 | 8 | ||
| Hit The Road Jack | The Stampeders | 40 | |||||
| That's The Way (I Like It) | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | |
| What's Come Over Me | Blue Magic | 11 | |||||
| SOS | ABBA | 15 | 19 | 12 | 6 | ||
| Ballero | War | 33 | 17 | 35 | |||
| How Long | Ace | 3 | 24 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Third Rate Romance | Amazing Rhythm Aces | 14 | 11 | 33 | 17 | 12 | |
| Convoy | C.W. McCall | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | |
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The Canadian edition of Mind Bender "only" featured 20 original hits, with eleven of them carried over from the US version. One of the six songs that failed to make a dent on the American charts is a contemporaneous cover of "Theme from S.W.A.T." by T.H.P. Orchestra, a Canadian disco act that hit #1 on their homeland charts in March 1976 while Rhythm Heritage took the same song to the top in the States in February. Unfortunately, Canadian Number Ones - the songs colored red on chart below - mean bupkis on the K-Tel Scale.
MIND BENDER [1976]
| K-tel Scale: |
25.15
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| Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| That's The Way (I Like It) | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | |
| Fly, Robin, Fly | Silver Convention | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| Loving You Baby | Wednesday | ||||||
| Crazy On You | Heart | 35 | 40 | 3 | |||
| SOS | ABBA | 15 | 19 | 12 | 6 | ||
| Love Rollercoaster | Ohio Players | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Lady Bump | Penny McLean | 2 | |||||
| I'm Running After You | Major Hoople's Boarding House | ||||||
| Sky High | Jigsaw | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Theme from S.W.A.T. | T.H.P. Orchestra | ||||||
| Convoy | C.W. McCall | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | |
| Rosanne | The Guess Who | ||||||
| If You Wanna Get To Heaven | Ozark Mountain Dadredevils | 25 | 21 | ||||
| Slippin' Into Darkness | War | 16 | 12 | ||||
| You Sexy Thing | Hot Chocolate | 3 | 6 | 2 | 22 | ||
| Come See My Man | C.B. Victoria | ||||||
| Nights On Broadway | Bee Gees | 7 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 7 | |
| Third Rate Romance | Amazing Rhythm Aces | 14 | 11 | 33 | 17 | 12 | |
| How Long | Ace | 3 | 24 | 1 | 8 | ||
| They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play) | The Spinners | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |
Theme from S.W.A.T. - thank you and good night.
ReplyDeleteThis was the exact LP I had in childhood.....Thank you for this post.....
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